[PATCH] wireguard-tools: Add dependency on kmod-wireguard

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 23:48:33 EST 2021


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:31 PM Ilya Lipnitskiy
<ilya.lipnitskiy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 5:57 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've backported WireGuard patch-by patch to 5.4, in a series that you
> > can simply apply to your existing 5.4 kernels. I can prepare that for
> > you guys tomorrow. That way, you'll have the kernel module in both 5.4
> > and 5.10 through the same mechanisms with the same code. That might
> > save a lot of the complexity that this discussion is veering toward.
> >
> > How's that sound?
> I've implemented the virtual package way I proposed in an earlier
> email. The changes are part of this pull request:
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3885
>
> If the reviewers are happy with my changes I think we are done.
> Otherwise, please chime in if we'd rather go the backport way with
> Jason's help.
The backport route is annoying as it means it would need to be
maintained separately from the module.

It's a moot point anyway. The release will be using the module. This
only concerns snapshot which will migrate to 5.10 eventually.
>
> - Ilya
>
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